Duplicate of Ancient China Test Review

the spreading of cultural traits , such as goods and ideas, from one culture to another. etc.

Compared with the Qin dynasty, the Han dynasty

a large group of family members and friends

A Chinese philosophy that emphasizes strict obedience to laws

Which Chinese teaching most influenced Qin Shahuangdi's style of rule?

How do we know the Shang believed in life after death?

on of the first Chinese dynasties, ruled from 1700 to 1122 B.C.E.

Hanfeizi, whose teachings were the basis for Legalism, wrote that rulers should emphasize

A person who works for the government

Honoring of ancestors through rituals, such as offering food to the spirtis of the dead

What did the Chinese write on before they invented paper?

Confucius

What is one way Daoism influenced China?

What was the purpose of building the Great Wall?

What was the legalist view of human nature?

Which of these would Confucious value most highly?

a place, usually in a desert, where water can be found

Who wants to be friends with ALLY?

Why did people in China want horses from Central Asia?

Great wall of china

Why did many people who were sent to work on the Great wall not return home?

Ancient Chinese healers used the techique of acupunture to

a large complex organization that functions under a given set of rules and conditions.

What did Hanfeizi say that rulers must do to avoid being overthrown?

A power or law believed to be granted by a god

What made silk valuable in the West?

What happened after the Qin emperor's death?

a region in the Huang He River valley, where Chinese civilization began

Which later practice in China most shows the influence of Confucian thought?

a line of rulers from about 1045 to 256 BCE

What new technology MOST helped the Han in warfare?

The first emperor to rule a united China, from 221 to 210 BCE...

the average weather conditions at a particular place

Which of these discoveries did the Chinese make, more than a thousand years befoer Europe did?

the Daoist concept of opposing forces

Out of all the countries in the world, China has the

How did the Han emperors gradually change the way China was ruled?

At the time of the Han dynasty, which people particularly threatened China from the North?

How is the Gobi Desert different from the Taklimakan Desert?

Which group most likely had the best life under the Emeror Qin's rule?

R u ready for Finales? (or tamales?)

a strong metal alloy made from copper

Shang weapons were really strong because they were made from

How did the Silk Road most affect the spread of Buddhism?

What happened during the Period of the Warring States?

Under Qin rule, what would happen if a rich person and a poor person committed the same crime?

Censor

The chain pump increased harvests by helping farmers

Why did the Emperor of Qin order all Confucian books brought to the capital?

The dyasty that ruled China from about 206 BCE to 220CE.

A Chinese philosophy that emphasizes proper behavior

In the later years of the Zhou dynasty, what condition in China led to new philosophies?

How did the Huang He most influence the settlement near its banks?

Which of these geographical features made governing China as a unified state difficult?

Qin Shihuangdi, the first emperor of China, began life as

a network of trade routes that stretched for more than four thousand miles across Asia

How did the natural vegetation of the Northestern Plain affect the lives of ancient settlers?

Daoists taught that people could gain happiness by

Region

a stream or river that feeds into a larger stream, river, or lake

How did a Shang leader ask advice from an ancestor?

How did scholars learn that the Shang dynasty really existed?

able to live forever

a piece of bone or shell heated and cracked by holy men to seek advice from a king's ancestor

a group of people traveling together

a system of government based on land-owners and tenants